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Oklahoma City Thunder clues hidden in NBA schedule?
newsok.com - 8/7/2008
Oklahoma City Thunder clues hidden in NBA schedule?
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The NBA’s Web site all but confirmed Thunder would be the nickname of Oklahoma City’s NBA team on Wednesday morning — by Wednesday afternoon, the evidence was gone. > When the league released its schedule on Wednesday, the NBA web site linked to a page that listed the “Oklahoma City Thunder schedule” and clicking on any of the Oklahoma City’s 82 games took you to the url — ...

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The League All But Confirmed ‘OKC Thunder’ Name
SLAM Online — The clues were all over the NBA’s official website yesterday, but to no one’s surprise, they’re gone today.

Rumors and Free Agent Updates - Kobe and LeBron to Europe Edition
LOY's PLACE a celtics green blog — ... The NBA’s Web site all but confirmed Thunder would be the nickname of Oklahoma City’s NBA team when they released the schedule on Wednesday morning. At first, NBA.com linked to a page that listed the “Oklahoma City Thunder schedule” but by Wednesday afternoon, all mentions of Thunder were removed. Now that the cat's out of the bag, it's about time they make the announcement and make it official. ...

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